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Environment
When oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico last year, scientists, engineers, and operations workers all had different ideas about what to do. The biggest lesson may have been getting these different groups to work together, Marcia McNutt of the USGS told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.
![[photo - Clean Tech Energy]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/clean_energy.jpg "[photo - Clean Tech Energy]")
Streamlining balky government permit processes or convoluted global supply chains are just some of the challenges in the "Valley of Death" faced by fledgling clean energy firms, government officials were told during a Stanford forum.
Research Resources
![[photo - Recycle]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Recycle.jpg "[photo - Recycle]")
Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.
![[photo - Eric Schlosser]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Eric-Schlosser.jpg "[photo - Eric Schlosser]")
Journalist-filmmaker Eric Schlosser tells students interested in food issues that critics of today’s industrial food system shouldn’t forget lower-income people.
![[photo - Knight Management Center]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Knight-Management-Center_0.jpg "[photo - Knight Management Center]")
The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an eight-building complex designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum, has achieved the LEED Platinum rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.
![[photo - Environmental Sustainability in Farming]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Organic-Farming---cropped-for-web.jpg "[photo - Environmental Sustainability in Farming]")
Sustainability now also means treating farmworkers well, an avocado grower tells MBA students interested in food and agriculture resource management.
Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.
Seen as a leader in sustainable business practices, Patagonia tracks every step in the manufacture of its products to be sure there are "no unintended consequences of our actions," says founder Yvon Chouinard.
EMBARQ, a network of sustainable transportation experts, has grown quickly, thanks to impressive fundraising and the design of a model program.
Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumer familiarity and sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers. By failing to address these problems, industry confidence in Fair Trade coffee is slipping.
Under the EPA’s Audit Policy, violators who voluntarily report themselves can get certain penalties reduced or waived if they commit to ongoing self-regulation…. But is that promise any more than window dressing?
Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.
Journalist-filmmaker Eric Schlosser tells students interested in food issues that critics of today’s industrial food system shouldn’t forget lower-income people.
The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an eight-building complex designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum, has achieved the LEED Platinum rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Sustainability now also means treating farmworkers well, an avocado grower tells MBA students interested in food and agriculture resource management.
Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.
Seen as a leader in sustainable business practices, Patagonia tracks every step in the manufacture of its products to be sure there are "no unintended consequences of our actions," says founder Yvon Chouinard.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business opens the Knight Management Center, a new facility of eight buildings around three quads designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum. The center is expected to achieve the highest LEED Platinum® rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Banker and philanthropist Tom Steyer says the idea of business doing everything perfectly without government involvement is "ridiculous." That's why he's fighting to convince politicians and CEOs that going green isn't a sacrifice, it's an opportunity.
Streamlining balky government permit processes or convoluted global supply chains are just some of the challenges in the "Valley of Death" faced by fledgling clean energy firms, government officials were told during a Stanford forum.
Dan Reicher, executive director of Stanford University's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, today testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power in a hearing on "EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations and Their Effect on American Jobs."
EMBARQ, a network of sustainable transportation experts, has grown quickly, thanks to impressive fundraising and the design of a model program.
Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumer familiarity and sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers. By failing to address these problems, industry confidence in Fair Trade coffee is slipping.
Under the EPA’s Audit Policy, violators who voluntarily report themselves can get certain penalties reduced or waived if they commit to ongoing self-regulation…. But is that promise any more than window dressing?
The media introduce social movements to the masses, but how do social movements make it into the media?
Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.
Sambazon’s commitment to social entrepreneurship creates a fair market for farmers in the Amazon
THE COMING FAMINE: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Julian Cribb
Environmental justice research may be asking the wrong questions. Researchers employ a novel statistical technique called “fuzzy set analysis,” which, in laymen’s terms, allows for the unexpected.
Manish Bapna believes that the path to solving global climate change runs straight through China, which is why the World Resources Institute is putting so much effort into working closely with the country and its leaders.
Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.
![[photo - Daniel Kreeger]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Daniel%20Kreeger.jpg "[photo - image - Daniel Kreeger]")
An important DoD report cited climate change as a top national security concern. Could it be that Defense will take the lead on climate change initiatives?
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![[photo - Aron Cramer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Aron%20Cramer%204978_0.jpg "[photo - image - Aron Cramer]")
A trend toward decreasing poverty and improving the environment is emerging as corporations as companies incorporate environmental, social, and welfare-based themes into business plans and products.
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New Obama administration goals are making this an excellent time for professionals interested in environmental sustainability, say senior government energy and technology officials.
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World demand for water is likely to continue to outpace population. In this panel discussion, experts talk about how this troubling environmental sustainability issue offers a rare opportunity for clean tech entrepreneurs. Our search for sustainable water offers lessons that may help others facing similar large-scale challenges such as world demand for energy.
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The environmental sustainability movement has long been pushing for the development of renewable energy resources. Yet to have a significant impact in the energy market, any renewable alternative must be scalable, argues Haas School professor Severin Borenstein.
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![[photo - Photo: Marcia McNutt]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/mcnutt%204771.jpg "[photo - Photo: Marcia McNutt]")
The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the greatest environmental disasters the world has experienced, and proved to be a serious setback for environmental sustainability efforts internationally. For 87 days, oil poured out a mile below the ocean. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, talks about the leadership lessons learned from this calamitous spill.
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![[photo - Photo: Professor Matthew E. Kahn]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Kahn%20Show%204665.jpg "[photo - Photo: Professor Matthew E. Kahn]")
A world with 7 billion people, each of whom seeks to live the American Dream, will translate into increasingly serious environmental sustainability issues. Professor Matt Kahn of the UCLA Institute for the Environment discusses the scope of the problem.
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![[photo - Picture: Coffee Beans]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Coffee%20Bag%20Bats%27il%20Maya.jpg "[photo - Picture: Coffee Beans]")
Alberto Irezabal discusses Mats'il Maya, a micro-industry co-op, which organizes indigenous coffe producers so that they ar enot subject to pricing abuse. Specifically, Irezabal talks about the process for organic and fair trade certification, the establishment of coffee stores in Mexico City, and goals for expansion.
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Rajesh Shah, 2010 Tech Award Winner, discuss how the Peer Water Exchange uses new media and peer interaction to empower communities and help solve the water and santiation crisis.
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![[photo - Picture: Morse]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/pic-morse.jpg "[photo - Picture: Morse]")
Stanford's Richard Morse discusses carbon offsets as a way to engage the developing world in climate change improvement.
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![[Video-The Effectiveness of Message Framing to Influence Behavior]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/rDmnyDsyxdU/0.jpg "[Video-The Effectiveness of Message Framing to Influence Behavior]")
Most observers agree that human consumption is on a crash course with the environment. Although recycling programs have been implemented in many cities around the world, people often do not participate as often as they could. This research examines the effectiveness of messages that highlight the negative consequences of not recycling (loss frames) versus those that emphasize the positive consequences of recycling (gain frames) in influencing people's behavior.
![[Video-Dr. Marcia McNutt: Conradin von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture Series]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/tPRwcsEfBS8/0.jpg "[Video-Dr. Marcia McNutt: Conradin von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture Series]")
How a team of scientists collaborated with the government to measure damage after the catastrophic Gulf oil spill in 2010.
![[Video-Going Green, Seeing Red: Environmental Activism and Corporate Social Responsibility]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YIYeZXdehLA/0.jpg "[Video-Going Green, Seeing Red: Environmental Activism and Corporate Social Responsibility]")
Activist movements should be analyzed against not only state but also the corporate realm, says Professor Sarah Soule.
![[Video-Investing in Green Tech]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ZLBD9IM-SKw/0.jpg "[Video-Investing in Green Tech]")
Kleiner Perkins is greening its portfolio with an alternative energy fund.
![[Video-What It Takes to Be a Remarkable Leader: John Doerr, Venture Capitalist]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/LDWURusr02k/0.jpg "[Video-What It Takes to Be a Remarkable Leader: John Doerr, Venture Capitalist]")
What are the ingredients for great leadership and entrepreneurship today?
![[Video-Opportunities in Clean Tech]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/xE1xGP_RKyw/0.jpg "[Video-Opportunities in Clean Tech]")
What is the future of clean tech?
![[Video-Khosla: Green Tech Must First Make Economic Sense]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ZcmECJWMH6c/0.jpg "[Video-Khosla: Green Tech Must First Make Economic Sense]")
For Vinod Khosla, MBA '80, zero emission buildings and hybrid vehicles have broad appeal, but any climate change solution must first make economic sense in order to be truly effective.
![[Video-Opportunities In Environmental Area]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/pxAR0qZzS3Y/0.jpg "[Video-Opportunities In Environmental Area]")
How do environmental challenges create growth opportunities, new markets, and innovation? Two Goldman Sachs managers discuss how their investment firm is making the financing of corporate deals contingent upon the incorporation of increasingly stringent environmental criteria.
![[Video-Fundamentals Are Biggest Challenge]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/hF3Hko7kteU/0.jpg "[Video-Fundamentals Are Biggest Challenge]")
In his 40 years with Chevron, O'Reilly's biggest leadership challenge is communicating the fundamentals of the oil business, that energy is something that has to be produced.
![[Video-Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-8]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/t0aEjOlX9lA/0.jpg "[Video-Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-8]")
Global Management Perspective: According to Tom Mercer, the trip "gets you out of the classroom" and into practical situations. It also "... gives perspective of how to deal with global management."
Most observers agree that human consumption is on a crash course with the environment. Although recycling programs have been implemented in many cities around the world, people often do not participate as often as they could. This research examines the effectiveness of messages that highlight the negative consequences of not recycling (loss frames) versus those that emphasize the positive consequences of recycling (gain frames) in influencing people's behavior.
An important DoD report cited climate change as a top national security concern. Could it be that Defense will take the lead on climate change initiatives?
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
A trend toward decreasing poverty and improving the environment is emerging as corporations as companies incorporate environmental, social, and welfare-based themes into business plans and products.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
New Obama administration goals are making this an excellent time for professionals interested in environmental sustainability, say senior government energy and technology officials.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
World demand for water is likely to continue to outpace population. In this panel discussion, experts talk about how this troubling environmental sustainability issue offers a rare opportunity for clean tech entrepreneurs. Our search for sustainable water offers lessons that may help others facing similar large-scale challenges such as world demand for energy.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
The environmental sustainability movement has long been pushing for the development of renewable energy resources. Yet to have a significant impact in the energy market, any renewable alternative must be scalable, argues Haas School professor Severin Borenstein.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the greatest environmental disasters the world has experienced, and proved to be a serious setback for environmental sustainability efforts internationally. For 87 days, oil poured out a mile below the ocean. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, talks about the leadership lessons learned from this calamitous spill.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
A world with 7 billion people, each of whom seeks to live the American Dream, will translate into increasingly serious environmental sustainability issues. Professor Matt Kahn of the UCLA Institute for the Environment discusses the scope of the problem.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Alberto Irezabal discusses Mats'il Maya, a micro-industry co-op, which organizes indigenous coffe producers so that they ar enot subject to pricing abuse. Specifically, Irezabal talks about the process for organic and fair trade certification, the establishment of coffee stores in Mexico City, and goals for expansion.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Rajesh Shah, 2010 Tech Award Winner, discuss how the Peer Water Exchange uses new media and peer interaction to empower communities and help solve the water and santiation crisis.
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![[photo - William P. Barnett]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/barnett-william_6.jpg "[photo - William P. Barnett]")
The Wild Salmon Center was created to provide anglers access to excellent fishing in return for funding research and conservation. The case discusses the Center’s efforts to protect the pristine watersheds of the Kamchatka Peninsula by developing ecotourism to raise funds for conservation.
The CEO of Gardenburger, a seller of veggie burger products and other food alternatives to meat, considers the company’s advertising strategy. He aims to take the company from the small health-food niche to the consumer mainstream.
![[photo - William P. Barnett]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/barnett-william.jpg "[photo - William P. Barnett]")
Various economic and environmental issues face the owners of a cruise business in the Galapagos Islands. The case gives special attention to the efforts of locals to preserve and enhance their own ecotourism business prospects.
The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs is Chinese environmental non-profit that has single-handedly revolutionized brought pollution standards and compliance to more than 47,000 sites and 22 multinational corporations in China. This case tells the story of the organization and its founder, environmental entrepreneur Ma Jun.
Maria Yee Inc. occupies a unique position as an environmentally conscious premium household furniture maker with two direct-owned factories in China and distribution through several large U.S. retailers. This case addresses the unique challenges that an entrepreneurial company faces in reaching its full potential as a business while advancing its green strategy.
![[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_4.jpg "[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]")
In 2007, the issue of global warming brought carbon dioxide emissions to the forefront of Americans’ minds. This paper examines some of the emerging innovations designed to reduce oil consumption.
![[photo - Alan D. Jagolinzer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/jagolinzer-alan-d.jpg "[photo - Alan D. Jagolinzer]")
The case discusses U.S. and international accounting guidance regarding the disclosure of contingent and environmental liabilities.
![[photo - David P. Baron ]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/baron-david-p_21.jpg "[photo - David P. Baron ]")
In 2007, Congress was discussing a 40 percent increase in required fuel efficiency. The automobile industry had a choice to fight the ruling., but instead decided to focus on influencing the details of the legislation.
![[photo - Dennis M. Rohan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/allen-dick_1.jpg "[photo - Dennis M. Rohan]")
Entrepreneurs and investors will find in this note a broad overview of the energy sector in 2008, highlighting trends and market dynamics.
![[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/burgelman-robert-a_6.jpg "[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]")
The case covers and analyzes the major players in the electric car industry, including start-up and established automakers, battery makers, retrofitters, utility companies and the government.
The Wild Salmon Center was created to provide anglers access to excellent fishing in return for funding research and conservation. The case discusses the Center’s efforts to protect the pristine watersheds of the Kamchatka Peninsula by developing ecotourism to raise funds for conservation.
The CEO of Gardenburger, a seller of veggie burger products and other food alternatives to meat, considers the company’s advertising strategy. He aims to take the company from the small health-food niche to the consumer mainstream.
Various economic and environmental issues face the owners of a cruise business in the Galapagos Islands. The case gives special attention to the efforts of locals to preserve and enhance their own ecotourism business prospects.
The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs is Chinese environmental non-profit that has single-handedly revolutionized brought pollution standards and compliance to more than 47,000 sites and 22 multinational corporations in China. This case tells the story of the organization and its founder, environmental entrepreneur Ma Jun.
Maria Yee Inc. occupies a unique position as an environmentally conscious premium household furniture maker with two direct-owned factories in China and distribution through several large U.S. retailers. This case addresses the unique challenges that an entrepreneurial company faces in reaching its full potential as a business while advancing its green strategy.
In 2007, the issue of global warming brought carbon dioxide emissions to the forefront of Americans’ minds. This paper examines some of the emerging innovations designed to reduce oil consumption.
The case discusses U.S. and international accounting guidance regarding the disclosure of contingent and environmental liabilities.
In 2007, Congress was discussing a 40 percent increase in required fuel efficiency. The automobile industry had a choice to fight the ruling., but instead decided to focus on influencing the details of the legislation.
Entrepreneurs and investors will find in this note a broad overview of the energy sector in 2008, highlighting trends and market dynamics.
The case covers and analyzes the major players in the electric car industry, including start-up and established automakers, battery makers, retrofitters, utility companies and the government.
The article examines environmental issues related to supply chains and supply chain management. Attempts to introduce sustainable practices into supply chains often meet with unexpected financial or environmental costs.
Establishments in better managed firms are significantly less energy intensive. Better managed firms are also significantly more productive. These results suggest that management practices that are associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
![[photo - gulf_oil_spill_source_la_times]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/oil%20spill.jpg "[photo - gulf_oil_spill_source_la_times]")
Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes. According to research by Phillip Leslie and Larry Chavis, boycotts do in fact work and they're something businesses should be concerned about.
Managers and marketers can motivate consumers to participate in environmental conservation programs by telling them how the majority of other people behaved in the same situation. Researchers specifically studied how to ask hotel guests whether or not they wanted to reuse their towels during the course of a stay. The study highlights the benefits of employing social science research and theory—rather than business communicators’ hunches, lay theories, or best guesses—in crafting persuasive messages. Guests given a description : "the majority guests in this hotel asked to reuse their towels," were 9% more likely to make the same decision than guests who were simply asked to "help save the environment" with no information on comparative behavior. Guests were motivated even further when the description matched their social demographic even more closely. They were even more likely to reuse their towels when told the majority of people staying in their room in the past had done so.
Some types of regulations governing disposal of electronic waste can reduce the world's mountains of devices waiting to be recycled, and also slow the rate of new product introductions says Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Erica Plambeck.
![[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_1.jpg "[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]")
The article reports Wal-Mart's progress in achieving its business sustainability goals. Reviewed are its plans to be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, to create zero waste, and to sell products that sustain our resources and the environment.
![[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee.jpg "[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]")
Electronics manufacturers have an incentive to test competitors’ products for hazardous substances, and reveal violations to regulators, thereby gaining market share when competitors’ products are blocked from the market. This paper argues that regulators should primarily rely on electronics manufacturers to do the testing, but that this is most e?ective in markets dominated by a few companies, and least effective in highly competitive markets composed of many small ?rms.
![[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_0.jpg "[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]")
When consumers purchase a new electronics product, the last-generation product they dispose of becomes e-waste. This paper investigates the impact of e-waste regulation on new product introduction in the electronics industry.
![[photo - John McMillan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/mcmillan-john_1.jpg "[photo - John McMillan]")
While economic theories can suggest fruitful directions to politicians, finding good economic policies requires experimentation and a recognition that grassroots folks also create economic change, says Stanford Business School economist John McMillan. Theorists, however, have been useful to state, national, and local governments on a less encompassing scale.
![[photo - Erica Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_5.jpg "[photo - Erica Plambeck]")
Designed for students with strong modeling/optimization/simulation skills, this course allocates more time to environmental and energy science and its implications for management and policy, and less time to the basics of modeling/optimization/simulation. Students apply spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation to resource management and environmental policy.
![[photo - Erica Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_6.jpg "[photo - Erica Plambeck]")
This course explores the fundamental science of ecosystems, climate, and energy. Students learn to apply spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation to resource management and environmental policy.
![[photo - Sridhar Narayanan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/shiv-baba.jpg "[photo - Sridhar Narayanan]")
This course addresses numerous questions about how to initiate and sustain green marketing. It also explores what technological and marketing innovations are likely to arise in the future.
![[photo - Erica Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_7.jpg "[photo - Erica Plambeck]")
This speaker seminar examines the overlap and synergies between the business and environmental fields. Weekly speakers include leaders from both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.
![[photo - Erica Plambeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/plambeck-erica-lee_8.jpg "[photo - Erica Plambeck]")
Markets have tremendous potential for solving environmental problems. Through case analysis, guest speakers, and the creation of business plans in environmental entrepreneurship, students will learn to apply core business principles of finance, marketing, economics, operations, accounting, and more to the provision of environmental goods and services.
Jack shares his unexpected adventures on Kangaroo Island, Australia, and how his discovery in habitat restoration has become an international example.
"Gib" shares his passion for America’s Great Plains and the possibility and promise of creating a prairie wildlife reserve of three million acres, and the hope it represents.
![[photo - Yohei Iwasaki (MBA '10)]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Yohei%20Iwasaki%201.jpg "[photo - Yohei Iwasaki (MBA '10)]")
Yohei Iwasaki and mOasis are enabling farmers to grow more crops from less water and to cultivate previously underutilized land, producing a sustainable environment that significantly reduces food and water shortages.
![[photo - Lee Zimmerman]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Lee%20Zimmerman_0.jpg "[photo - Lee Zimmerman]")
As co-owners of Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite, a social enterprise that combines environmental stewardship and socially-minded employment strategies, Lee Zimmerman and Brian Anderluh discuss keys and barriers to success, potential for scale, and opportunities for the future.
![[photo - Yoriko Kishimoto]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/YorikoKishimotofromYoriko072507TwoIn.jpeg "[photo - Yoriko Kishimoto]")
As mayor of Palo Alto in 2007, Yoriko Kishimoto championed a call to action to build a green economy through innovation, including strategies for zero waste, walkable communities, renewable energy, green building, farmers markets, and open space.
![[photo - Ashley Boren]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Ashley%20Boren_0.jpg "[photo - Ashley Boren]")
Ashley Boren explains how protecting the environment can also be good for business. She spoke at the Oct 20, 2011 anniversary event celebrating the school's 40 year commitment to educating socially-conscious leaders.
![[photo - Jeremy Sokulsky MBA '04]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Jeremy%20Sokulsky.jpg "[photo - Jeremy Sokulsky MBA '04]")
Jeremy Sokulsky is working with government land managers, environmental regulators and private conservation investors to restore Lake Tahoe clarity.
![[photo - Michael DeLapa]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Michael%20DeLapa.jpg "[photo - Michael DeLapa]")
Michael DeLapa is heavily involved in environmental, land use, and energy issues. He has launched several non-profits in the Bay Area as well as the California Fisheries Fund.
![[photo - Court Gould (EPNL '06)]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Court%20Gould%20photo_0.jpg "[photo - Court Gould (EPNL '06)]")
Court Gould is pushing for Pittsburgh to grow sustainably. He's working hard to inform decision makers about to accomplish that most effectively.
Ruth Bolan is giving voice to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Island. She funds documentaries that bring their culture and challenges to millions of viewers.
Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.
Most observers agree that human consumption is on a crash course with the environment. Although recycling programs have been implemented in many cities around the world, people often do not participate as often as they could. This research examines the effectiveness of messages that highlight the negative consequences of not recycling (loss frames) versus those that emphasize the positive consequences of recycling (gain frames) in influencing people's behavior.
Journalist-filmmaker Eric Schlosser tells students interested in food issues that critics of today’s industrial food system shouldn’t forget lower-income people.
The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an eight-building complex designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum, has achieved the LEED Platinum rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.
"Gib" shares his passion for America’s Great Plains and the possibility and promise of creating a prairie wildlife reserve of three million acres, and the hope it represents.
Jack shares his unexpected adventures on Kangaroo Island, Australia, and how his discovery in habitat restoration has become an international example.
Sustainability now also means treating farmworkers well, an avocado grower tells MBA students interested in food and agriculture resource management.
Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.
Seen as a leader in sustainable business practices, Patagonia tracks every step in the manufacture of its products to be sure there are "no unintended consequences of our actions," says founder Yvon Chouinard.
Yohei Iwasaki and mOasis are enabling farmers to grow more crops from less water and to cultivate previously underutilized land, producing a sustainable environment that significantly reduces food and water shortages.
